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Ma Satya Priya: Reporting From The Osho Resort
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Christopher Calder: RE:RE:Reporting From The Osho Resort WWW: home.att.net/~meditation Email:  yahoo.comDate: Oct 30, 2005, 18:32 |
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A. I am not "German." I am mainly British mixed with French and Swedish blood. My full legal name is Christopher Calder with no middle name. I was adopted and my birth father's name was John Johansen and my birth mother's name was Catherine Boyer. I am 1/8th Jewish, genetically speaking. I will be 56 years old next month. B. My public political editorials can be found at http://home.att.net/~medi tation/politics.html C . Before the last Gulf War one of my newspaper editorials was printed in a major Kuwaiti newspaper. The editorial called for the Kuwaiti people to not cooperate in Bush's war on Iraq, and I used some pretty tough language. The letter was translated into the local language and so many people read it that it caused a political stir, which not only upset the Kuwaiti Government but also US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. It became a news story on CNN and a CNN reporter asked Rumsfeld about my letter and he angrily yelled "It was not helpful." If all my hundreds of letters to foreign newspapers and foreign embassies trying to stop both of the Gulf wars did nothing but make Donald Rumsfeld angry, then at least I did something. That is the frustrating thing about world politics. Unless you are a major player you have little effect on the world. Besides voting, I don't know much else to do but write letters to people who can make a difference. The computer chat rooms and newsgroups are mainly filled with teenagers shouting at each other, so I view them as a waste of time. D. My essays on Osho are relaxed, honest, and fair. Their is nothing "hell-bent" about them or me. You see "hell" because I expose what you wish to cover up and ignore. It is not Osho's words that show his greatest faults, but his real life actions. Becoming a drug addict and living the life of a hypocrite is no small matter. Also, his teachings were simply wrong and untrue and based on self-serving lies and outdated myths. You can ignore all that but I cannot and the majority of the world looks upon him as a disgrace. Gurus should speak the truth, have just one face, and have no personal profit motive, otherwise they will only exploit and mislead their disciples. Christopher Calder |
